Quote

Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If you put Hank and Elvis together, there wasn't that musical difference. But as the Beatles showed up and the English invasion, I think country music got pretty far away from rock n' roll.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country at that time. We were doing stuff that probably could have been called country music today, but would certainly have not have fit in at that time.

I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music.

I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.

I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.